Lot
14

ANOTHER PROPERTY

Ruth was striding ahead toward the Piazza. She turned, and saw me walking through a gauntlet of men. It was a situation she had long imagined. She shot a picture and shouted: 'Jinx, go back and step off that curb again.'

I did; she shot; and on the second take photographed the 'American Girl in Florence'.

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Literature

Cosmopolitan, September 1952, within an article on travel tips for young women, there cropped eliminating the three men at left; Ruth Orkin: A Retrospective, International Center for Photography, New York, 1995, p.9; Ruth Orkin: American Girl in Italy: The Making of a Classic, Howard Greenberg Gallery, 2005, pl.10 & cover.

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ANOTHER PROPERTY

Ruth was striding ahead toward the Piazza. She turned, and saw me walking through a gauntlet of men. It was a situation she had long imagined. She shot a picture and shouted: 'Jinx, go back and step off that curb again.'

I did; she shot; and on the second take photographed the 'American Girl in Florence'.